It never occurred to me that I was not going to challenge segregation.

The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place.

No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

A lot of people are waiting for Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi to come back - but they are gone. We are it. It is up to us. It is up to you.

You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

Somehow we are going to have to develop a concept of enough for those at the top and at the bottom so that the necessities of the many are not sacrificed for the luxuries of the few.